"Sunset at Nyugati railway station, Budapest. A man is watching the timetable at the deserted platform of Nyugati Station right after the departure of the train carrying the Hungarian fans to the Romania-Hungary football match in Bucharest. The sunset is seen through the smoke of the firecrackers exploded by the fans."

This image was taken in Sicily. I am working on a project called 'A day on the beach', a documentary project focused on the life on the Sicilian beaches during the crowded months of summer. The project began on 2013 and in 2014(after I bought a new mobile phone) I took some photos for this project even with my mobile phone (these can be seen on my Instagram profile: https://instagram.com/turicalafato/). The shot was taken at the end of July 2014. It is usual to see scenes like this because people spend all day along at the beach and all the usual activities, like playing, eating, sleeping, etc., are done outdoors. All kind of people are seen, and it is a pleasure to contemplate at the same time so much of humanity enjoying and relaxing under the sun.

The image depicts a Grey Pelican (pelecanus philippensis) in front of a city skyline element. The shot was taken in January 2014 in Colombo (capital of Sri Lanka) at the end of a three-week trip through the island’s national parks and rainforests. The bird stands out with a slight touch of warm colour tones against grey city background. The tension in the picture arises from the opposition of the bird’s round shapes against the predominantly horizontal and vertical structures of the man-made structures, together with the animal’s seemingly lost and seeking gaze and its `weird’ posture.

A man performs a 'bomb' dive in the ocean. This image was intended to undermine stereotypes of masculine strength and power. The bomb dive - a metaphor of power and destruction - is revealed as ineffectual and pointless posturing, a tiny gesture in the face of wider forces. Furthermore, the image comments on the possibilities of fiction in digital photography, a seemingly believable image is also somehow completely impossible, a perfect reflection permanently fixed on the brink of disruption. The image is a digital composite of multiple photographs. The imagery was created in London and the Sussex coast in July 2014.

I took this image while paragliding over Räumliches Bildungszentrum, in Biberach an der Riss. It was an early morning in May, it had rained all night, and it was perfect conditions to get good contrasts. I took five flights between 2013 – 2014 trying to get the perfect shot, with perfect contrast and shadows, until I finally got it this morning in May 2014

I have been snapping pictures of street performers for a couple of years. On 31st January last year I was heading downtown with my family as I found these graffiti artists working on a large mural which I have spotted a few days before. I asked my wife to wait for five minutes and I started shooting. These boys are very talented and have been replacing ugly tag patched walls with murals in the surroundings of the San Gregorio neighbourhood for some years. This picture is my favourite image of 2014

It was in September, a few days after my birthday, and I had been working 17 days in a row making a video of the Basketball World Cup in Madrid. I was not doing anything creative, just waiting for people to get into our stand. Suddenly, the stand was absolutely empty. I looked around and saw those amazing Hungarian guys jumping. I only had my wide-angle lens for the video, but luckily I saw a guy I knew with a 70-200 lens. I asked him if I could borrow the lens, and all I had to do was press the button. I had never taken any sport picture before! I haven’t seen the guy in the picture again but if I see him, I'm afraid I will have to invite him dinner.

“Early Dawn” was taken while I was walking along Old Kolkata. Seeing the locals entering an old abandoned shophouse along a row of old buildings, I decided to venture in, knowing that they were probably preparing themselves for the day. The shophouse was an amazing spectacle, with streams of people taking their turns washing themselves as well as their clothes. After mingling for around 5 minutes, they accepted me as part of them, and that was when I started to photograph their morning activities. “Early Dawn” was shot on 26th October 2014, at 8.45 am (Kolkata time), in Old Kolkata.

The two great yellow-painted gantry cranes Samson and Goliath have become icons of Belfast, dominating not just Queen’s Island but the entire city skyline. Constructed to service the vast new graving dock at Harland and Wolff, Goliath (the smaller at 315 ft) began work in 1969, the 348ft Samson five years later. Each of the Krupp-Ardelt designed cranes can lift loads of up to 840 tons. Harland and Wolff were still one of the world’s great shipbuilders at the time and the building of the two cranes, during a difficult period for shipbuilding in Belfast, was seen as a sign of faith in the future. The image itself was taken during sunrise on a particularly wet day by lying flat in a puddle as low as possible to the ground. It is a series of images stitched together in editing software to create an impressive colourful panoramic.

The photo is taken in front of the old Karls church in downtown Vienna, and depicts a fictional person, Don Bohlul, the Don Quixote of the Orient. Many people consider him as crazy, but he made philosophical and meaningful statements. This photo is part of my Don-Bohlul series, which is based on a satire imaginary story: Once upon a time in the old city of Esfahan, Don Bohlul was going through the Bazar as he saw the picture of a beautiful blond western woman on a soup box. He fell in love with her, sold his horse and travelled to Vienna in pursuit to find her. In Vienna he was then amazed and wondered...

Simplicity is happiness. I took this photo at a train station in Jaipur when I was travelling in India last year. Wandering around the platform, I attempted to capture the atmosphere before the train's departure.

The image was taken in March of 2014. I was on a skiing holiday with friends in Borovets, which is one of the most famous ski resorts in Bulgaria. The last night before we left I was looking out of my hotel room and dreaming of staying few more days. It was such a calm atmosphere and I decided to take a final picture before I had to go. I wanted to catch the snow and bring atmosphere to the photo so I turned the flash on. That’s how I made this amazing landscape, which truly illustrates my winter dream.

This photo was taken in 2014 in the theatre of Évora (Italian style theatre) - Teatro Garcia de Resende. This photo is a part of a photo series of the group of Cante Alentejano of Évora. This photo shoot was specially produced because of the Cante Alentejano was listed by UNESCO as Intangible World Heritage. “Cante Alentejano” and Évora, two aspects of a common memory, intangible and material world heritage riches in a single image

This is the back alley of my grandmother's house in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. I shot this during Chinese New Year last year when the sky is the clearest and brightest with stars. A flower plant can also be seen flourishing with limited resources and space, there is a lot of cats wandering around the back alley usually after dinner time, waiting to be fed by the good people around here.